Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1910 — WIVES IN THOUSANDS. [ARTICLE]

WIVES IN THOUSANDS.

Farmers in Northwestern Canada Waiting for Curjro of Women. The problem of domestic Isolation is about to be solved in a large part of the provinces of Northwestern Canada. The Women’s Guild of Montreal has made arrangement with two lines of steamers plying between that port and England for the passage of 4,000 domestic servants to be brought over this summer. The officers of the guild announce that applications have already been made for the services of every one of these domestic servants, and that the demand is so great that they could place twice the number al: ready engaged. Most of these 4,000 servants will be sent to the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta. And as most of them are women, It is probable that they will be quickly snapped up as wives by the desperately lonely farmers of the Northwest. Thus history will repeat itself and the scenes enacted in Virginia and the other colonies of this country will be re-enacted in Western Canada. To anyone who has experienced the depressing isolation of the tremendous distances of the silent places of this region there will appear no anomaly in the question of the Canadian farmers marrying their domestic servants. Under such depressing conditions the only question that presents Itself is the Biblical one—that a virtuous wife is more precious than jewels. No social problems of caste will vex the minds of these lonely pioneers of the Northwest. They understand perfectly that if they do not promptly avail themselves of the opportunity to secure a wife some other farmer will quickly deprive them of their services by making an offer of marriage. And they also understand the curious trait In womankind which leads virtually every member of the femifilne sex to prefer to work for a man all her life without pay In the coin of the realm provided the magic ring of matrimony encircles her third finger.—Kansas L'ity Journal.